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GREECE: MIT COUNTRY OF CONTRASTS

By Edgar Clark -

REECE today is a country of sharp, bitter

and often cruel contraste.

Abject poverty and fabulous wealth, breath- taking beauty and sordid ugliness, live side by sido in Athens.

From a distance, a visitor aces the classic glory of the Acropolis, the heaven-renching fingers of Lykavettos, the unfolding arms of the moun- tains of the honeybee and Parnos.

In Athens itself, he finds luxurious apartment buildings, expensive cars, swank night clubs, men and women dressed in the height of fashion and even children clothed in silk.

But he also sees acres of barren, Althy empty lots, Kundreds of dirty, unpaved streels, tumbled down apartments, ragged children and adults with festering sores, ancient rickety cars and wagons, and the stench of uncollected refuse,

But Outside Athens, he finds Uttle but poverty. Atheniano shut their eyes to it all. Most know less,

and want to know less than the

most casual foreigners about the rest of Greece.

So much cash I can

hardly walk...

ERE I am, walking with

some effort up the mud- coloured main street of Georgetown, clinking loudly at every step.

I have had my money problems before now, but I have never hitherto had to clank through the heat welghed down with £8 17s, of silver in my pocket, dragging my trousers down about my knees.

This absurd performance is made necessary by the fact that the various little countries of our erratic Caribbean empire use about as many different currencies as they can possibly contrive, which makes travel- ling around them even more ot a bore than is necessary..

Confusions

Fram Georgetowḥ, British Guiana

WASHINGTON

U.S.A.

BUTANA

BRAZIL.

JAMES CAMERON

sends, report No. 3 on our Empire

in the Caribbean

•Colonial Development Corporation has just made lia first-ever invest ment in the gold busines here, for Instance.

The Greeks themselves arc mixture of bravery and cowardice, of integrity and dishonesty, of love and cruelty, of industriousness. and laziness.

THE FIGHTER · The true Greek fighter regularly carries out explofis that would wie

Medal In him the Congressional the United States or the Victoria! But the rice fields and the sugar Cross in Britain. But his brother plantations desperately need new may have avoided military service American equipment, the forestsby a ling

financial contribution to the Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, need beating down by some super government. and British, a fantastically Tanganyika enterprise. hospitable and merry folk- live along the muddy coastal Thero should be many times as carried out on a grand scale, and Atrip, well below sea level, work for them to do. 'spending most of the national incofae on a sen wall.

many

Gulanese-when

Insularity

there

Common thievery is little known in Greece. But black marketing is

isusury and fraud are commonplace.

o British Gulana, looking at the congested, uncertain slum lands of

The more honest, apd, 'less' nimble Greeks tend to admire the experts.../ In these latter fields.

Family life probably more There are 89,000 square miles

closely knit than in any etber coun of British Guiana, so little culti

try. Greek parents cannot do too vated that it cannot fulfil its the West Indian Islands, thinks much for their children. Secant

the Wost sourly of federation.

cousins are just as close to a: Oreek.; contract to supply

British Guiana Indeed affects as his brothers, sisters and parents. Indies with 29,000 tons of Its

rare insularity for a place that is And harmony reigns within the clan. fine Demerara rice.

not an Island. Today's paper, for

But the Greek gives way'

easily cold-blooded political murders, example carries a panel:

Bendish torture of his encatter, killing prisoners without trial ant wholesale executions. He beats his. donkey unmercifully and kicks his.. dog.

It has a waterfall five times higher than Niagara and no hydro-electricity. It does, to

be sure, produce the best bauxite (owned almost wholly by Canadian and United States capital). which all goes to be. made into aluminium in Canada.

An

"The.

cables from abroad last night do not seem ́ to alter the world situation much so we do not use them. Most of them seemed to be

· propaganda, anyway.":

WORKS HARD

to."

The Greek, peasant works so hard to be a slave to his land and his This flocks. So do his wife and children. But, in the, villages and elties, masses of able-bodied tho soundest approach to journal-the ism I. liave come across this many me beads to going of fine

gering beads to pass away the so to bed, in a hot night Many just doze,

And

one

It has the richest assortment, of splendid timber, and most of it la a long day. still standing in the vast forests including masses of wallaba, which made hideous with a wild variety There is a definite caste system makes paper, or rather con but of gramophones, bells, barks, howls, between the rutero and the ruled. frogs that squeak, and loads that But there is also a popular democ doesn't.

allows the hairdresser It has cattle on the big savan- sing falsette, and radio from Brazi racy which nehs-and when

opidemic of The time comes when feels to address her, wealthy customer and the corner sleeping alekness broke out in 1943 that just one more performance of by her first name

through the policeman ihe authority

delay the the British Government sent out "Nature Boy" moaning throug

traffic jam one veterinary officer equipped with steamy night will be an experience king's car in a

And even the individual Greek a microscope he bought himself and too excruciating to bear tomorrow,

to cover and it is Northward Ho again presents a literal picture of contrasts... one haemoglobin scale

through Caracas and Curacao and You sometimes see a man in com- western dress, including D 4,500 square miles.

One would say that British Guiana 'the liltie Dominican Republic, whose plete

a little

money spent on problems, intricate as they may be, monocle, spats, hat and cane.. But

about. The are happily no worry of mine. he has no necktie.

British Guiana, now, is that Jungly lump of South America which, the British have had for 152 years, in which time they have penetrated ten miles in JAMAICA uses Jamaican land and populated an area pounds, the Bahamas have larger thun England with fewer Bahamian pounds, Trinidad, people than live in Bristol. Barbados, British Gulana, and

It has a list of natural re- their the rest prefer local make of the West India sources a mile long and a dollar-an odd 4s. 2d. affair, record of commercial develop divided into cents. These, ment you could summarise on however, are madly represented a fourpenny-bit (I forgot to by shillings and florins, a neck- mention that British Guiana breaking compromise between has that extra device to com- her, It |the ̄ ̄decimal ̈ ̄and the pence-plicate one's financial entangle-

ments).

system.

OWN!

needs

may come

It is possible eventually to You have to come to British C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene

remember that the half-crown Guiana to recognise that Bri-

is 60 cents-until you get to Honduras, where it isn't.

Each colony professes a dis- Ita taste and contempt for naighbours' paper money, and

dilemma is not a dilemma at all, but a multitude.

tain's West India

86% Forest

months.

IN TENNESSEE,

in

NEW YORK. home town, where he was enjoying which F.D.R. had not dominated...

from

Interest his momentary release

the In Kansas there was more RIGHT and early the presi- w House, which he called the in a local election-another attempt Bdential campaign for 1952 wist not in the world."

by the "wols" to vote down prohibi- tion in the State, has begun.

America's It may not make news for several

Southlands, Negroes received MOR SALE: A new-style prefab The campaign is starting quietly warnings not to vote from the Kumade of concrete, consisting of roomis, In Klux Klan, the nightshirted secret sitting room, kitchen, two bedrooms, as the only common tally is THERE you have Jamaica within golf club locker

order pledged to keep Whites and full equipment. It will be put. coin, the practicable way of over-population and unemploy. drawing rooms, at business and at

And in Florida, another luncheon tables. And for the supreme.

up on ground, which is included in Southern State, a K.K.K. parade of the price, within a fortnight. Price moment.. at least, I will be a one-

50 cars filled with hooded riders £1.487. man campaign.

voting dis- Truman's favourite drove through Negro President

and trics shouting that they would not IN MIAMI George Ford and Dewey

།ས crony, George Allen, a

tolerate Communism.

Frazier could not agree over the Jovial man who always

ownership of a motor-boat, So they point.over by means of a sly joke

UIETEST CITY in the country sawed it in holl. But even that dia, or a wisecrack, is running it.

Then

moving around is to organise ment strictly silver resources.

fat Keta

his

But this time Allen is not booming Harry Truman.

Island,

and restlessness and misery, run by crackpot I would say this alone was a demagogue and threatened at fair argument for the big West all times by disorder. Indian federation proposal, even You have Trinidad, headed

Qwas Washington.

Voteless, its not settle their argument. if I had not been "gold" on the same way, already leaning

the side-ines Ford went to court and accused his federation LA a basic inter- towards America in almost

citizens slayed on 5.20.national theory anyway.

walling for the nation to choose its former friend of taking more than

The motor was in Ban every way. You have a string

next President, and even its next bis share. Now, his candidate is a man who mayor.

Frazier's hall The transcendental nuisance of little island shanty towns,

South Carolina, of Customs examination be all suffering more or less from could have won the present elec

agreed IN COLUMBIA,

Democrats provided "babysliters" who is using up some

BUSINESS: Henry Sherek, umume CHOW

of the ZINAL tween St Kitts and Barbados, the dark man's facility at self-tion easily if he had only

to contest it-General Elsenhower,

that mothers could vole. Trinidad and Antigua, Nassau production.

In 1952: Allen is saying, Ike will so

... Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Stone, of New York profits of Edward My

Sen" in

in the frequent enjoyment o and Jamaica 'makes all this

Foster, Barbados, for example, is say. Yes.

Rhoda

running

sleaks, is writing on article on New petty sovereignty a traveller's said to have the second heaviest rur FIRST VOTE In this year's against each other for the often of York's best steak restaurant

by New town treasurer, each voted for tho

with elections was

Hollys W Lassie's contract density of population in the

York's Bernard Baruch, the milo.her....

wood company ensures that the dog However, you don't much world.

Ilonaire "elder statesman," who got

AGNES WATERS, aged 55, only will get a first-class private parlour change out of the Gulanese And here wo have Britialup at 5 am. to win the distinction.

A woman candidato for President on all train trips... Lana Turner

and (programme: peace and strength), writes from Connecticut: "We are here if you talk that sort of Culana, supporting only twice Sald to have been insulted by Pre-

not sident Truman for refusing to cam-

Anna heresy. They have rigid ob as many people in a country pain for him. Baruch would not say entled her campaign tour at Phila- living a very quiet ills, jections to federation like 500 times bigger.

delphia with an expenses blil, which missing society at all." **** how he voed.

she paid herself, for £25, all of it May Wong, who lefe Hollywood be-- caues of the "disgraceful" roles they Friends of Tru- ROM his official New Yorkin bus fares..

gave her, is making a come-back: man disclosed that he ran for two residence, an hotel bearing the name of his most hated opponent, reasons to win pence and keep in the part of a Chinese maid. more Dewey voted, for that man Dewey out of the Wille Kathryn Grayson, the singing net

her husband, › crooner one .. Only one HousG.”

American has left himself and grinned, "That's

that this Johnnie Johnson, because of him vote I've got." President Truman newspaper remembered

election since 1032 "fiendish" enthusiasm, for golf, St have a dozen, all different. Its Negroes, East Indians, voted in Independence, his Missouri was the first

Next Change: “MEET, ME AT DAWN”

penance.

everyone else.

This slab out of South Might not a pool of resources. America is the one virtually a union of administration re- unexplored part of the Empire. lieve the West Indian problem? It is 80 percent forest, What problem? Say they: We Almost all of its people

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